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Europe's largest celebration of Black literature: one Sunday at the Barbican with more than eighty authors.
FestivalLecture / talkBooks & writersFamily friendlyAnnual event
At Barbican Centre.
Also in Literary London.
A single day that fills the Barbican with headline conversations, panels, workshops, a spoken-word showdown, a children's programme and a marketplace of publishers and booksellers; the 2026 headliners include Candice Carty-Williams, Corinne Bailey Rae and Wretch 32. A festival pass covers one headline event and everything else in the day.
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